The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-02-06
MOTHER" HUBBARD.
Awful Crime Committed by an Old
Woman Who Died Recently
In Indianapolis.

1.-The oldest and one of the most noted
female prisoners in Indiana died on Sun,
day at the Reformatory at Indiana
polls" writes Louisville, KY, CORES
pondent of the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Her name was Sallie Hubbard, famlli
arly known as Mother Hubbard. She
was SO years of age. and served thirty
one years behind the bars. She came
from Grant County in 1850, and was sent
up for one of the most atrocious muir
ders ever known.
Herself and husband were employed
on small farm owned by William Gas
sandra. The family OF the latter con-
sisted of the husband, wife and four
children. one OF whom was an infant.
Hubbard and his wife formed a plot one
night 10 kill them all and take posses
sion of their property. The plot was a
most dlabohcal one, and could only
have originated in the mind of a fend.
About II o'clock one cold night in
March, 1874, they determined to carry
out their designs. The Cassandra fam
were all slumbering quietly, little
dreaming of the awful fate that was in
store for them. Hubbard took the ak,
which he had previously sharpened, and
Aunt sally held the candle. Together
they cautiously crept down to the sleep
ing-room OF the family. Hating al the
BEDSIDE, Hubbard raised the ak and sent
1t crashing through Cassandra's head.
His wife half rose in the bed, but a
murderouS blow cleft her skull twain.
The three children were then dispatched
IN G, ~ 4
baby, remained.
''Going over to the cradle, the inhu-
man brute leaned over and looked at the
innocent little creature. 1t opened its
pretty little eyes, and looking up at him,
laughed in Infantile glee. Bad as he
was, Hubbard could not kill it, and so
told his wife. With curse, SalIie said:
: You chicken-hearted --.TH kill
it. Suiting the action to the word, she
seized it by one leg, and, whirling it
over her head, dashed its brains out
against the stove. Taking the six bodies
they buried them under the sIttingroom
floor.
THE next morning they gave out
that the Cassandra family were visiting
in ST. Louis. In few months it leaked
out in some manner. Both were ar.
rested. Hubbard was sentenced to be |
hanged, and his wife was sent up for
life. On the scaffold Hubbard made a |
full confession. Sallie was sent to JEFF |
tersonYille and remained there until the |
female prison was moved to Indianapo-
lis. She was motherly old woman. |
and to look at her wrinkled face one |
would never suppose that she was guilty |
OF such an awful crime. She had charge |
of the milk department while at Jeffer- |
sonville, and was passionately fond of
the children of the guards, who were
sent there for milk. Frequently she
would give them presents to kiss her,
and not one of them seemed afraid of
her,
when she became satisfied that she
must die she spoke for the first time of
the crime tor which she was sent up,
She told the full story to the attendants.
ana nrmly protested her innocence. She
SAID that her husband had murdered
the family, and thinking that it would
serve 10 lessen bis own punishment he
nao Implicated her. She said she would
lle IN the nope OF an eternal happiness
uou would repay her for the many wears
of suffering she had unjustlv under
gone. Before leaving JeffersonvilIe She
made prophecy which, singular as it
may seem, has been fulfilled:
d, Every man or woman who has any,
ming 10 do with removing me from here
-lne place have learned to Ioye-wllI
De VISITED by dire calamity
OnaS. Royce, a guard, was the first
'ne. de stepped from the train on the
way Dack and was stricken with para
ysls, Irom which he died tWentv-four
iourS afteTwaTd. The matron died in
mort time; Col. Shuler, the warden. be.
,aue confirmed invalid: Joe Vanov
vas shot IN Kansas; George Ferguson
vas run over and his leg cut off, and
Ie0Ige chamberlain was shot and killed
y W hiiam Kennedy, an escaping con-
Ict. All these were connected with the
lrlson and assisted in removing the :
Fretched old woman